Using your deployments

After creating your service you will be taken to the service dashboard. This contains all the information and controls about your deployment.

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Logs, metrics, and health checks

You can click on a container in a service to view logs, metrics, and health checks. You can see active containers in your service dashboard, or on the service’s observability dashboard.

:northflank: Logs and metrics

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Shell access

You can click on a running container in a service to access a shell for the container. This will start a prompt with the default user for the image. The image will only have access to programs that it was built with, for example some images may not have a package manager or text editor.

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:northflank: Execute commands in a container

You can also Using SSH to access your Services

Public URL

You can expose your application to the public internet from a deployment’s ports and DNS page. You can use this to access web interfaces or APIs served by your deployments. Only HTTP ports can be made public.

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:northflank: Expose your application

Persistent volumes

Add volumes to persist data between restarts:

Persistent volumes